wikidata: a new way to disseminate structured data
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Presentazione tenuta durante il convegno "Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue", tenuto presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, il 27-28 febbraio 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Wikidata: A New Way toDisseminate Structured Data
Luca Martinelli Rome, February 27ͭ h , 2014
Submission released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
What is Wikidata?A new Wikimedia Foundation project
a free, collaborative, multilingualsecondary knowledge base
A ... database
• Secondary
• Free
• Collaborative
• Multilingual
The goals of Wikidata
1) Centralising project links
2) Collecting structured data
3) Creating automatic queries
4) Providing support for third parties
Which data?• Links to other items
• Alphanumeric codes
• Images from Wikimedia Commons
• Quantities
• Temporal coordinates (dd/mm/yyyy)
• Geographic coordinates
• URI addresses
Which (future) data?
• Quantities with units of measurements
• Monolingual texts
• Multilingual texts
• ...anything else?
The "statements"
Which projects?
Which future projects?
The Wikidata licenses
(service pages) (data)
Some statistics• Launched on October 30th, 2012
• +14,000,000 items created
• +30,000,000 statements created • +240,000,000 lines of code removed
• ~116,000,000 edits made
Items with a ... code
• VIAF: 47ͭ2,7ͭ34
• ISNI: 189,631
• GND: 27ͭ5,87ͭ3
• LCCN: 191,906
• BNF: 139,7ͭ47ͭ
• SBN: 2,218
• BAV: 990
Other opportunities• Wikidata:Books task force
• Thesaurus BNCF (9.898 items)
• Partnership EAGLE-WMI (~3,000 epigraphies)
Join us!
https://www.wikidata.org
Thank you for your attention
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